Saturn has 128 new moons – more than the rest of the planets combined
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471071-saturn-has-128-new-moons-more-than-the-rest-of-the-planets-combined/
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Study has found that targeted psychological interventions can significantly enhance long-term resistance to misinformation. Dubbed “psychological booster shots,” these interventions improve memory retention and help individuals recognize and resist misleading information more effectively over time
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03-11-new-research-reveals-psychological-booster-shots-can-strengthen-resistance
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One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting, a new study shows, revealing the depth and impact of the epidemic of gun violence that has washed over the US in recent decades..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/one-in-15-americans-has-witnessed-a-mass-shooting-study
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Anti-pollution regulations for diesel-powered ships in 2020 caused lightning strikes to quickly drop by half over two Asian shipping lanes, according to a study of 12 years of high-resolution global lightning strike data, demonstrating the link between particulate pollution and lightning storms
https://theconversation.com/the-world-regulated-sulfur-in-ship-fuels-and-the-lightning-stopped-249445
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Women with higher self-acceptance are less prone to problematic pornography use | Additionally, women who use pornography more frequently tend to experience greater difficulties in engaging in goal-directed behaviors.
https://www.psypost.org/women-with-higher-self-acceptance-are-less-prone-to-problematic-pornography-use/
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Inside America’s Fluoride Rebellion
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/inside-americas-fluoride-rebellion-ab9aa524?st=ckVLfg
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Climate change made severe UK wildfires in 2022 six times more likely. That summer saw temperatures hit 40°C for the first time and left firefighters stretched, with London Fire Brigade having its ‘busiest day since the Second World War’.
https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/climate-change-made-severe-uk-fires-in-2022-six-times-more-likely/
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Study finds football teams move collectively as a single person | Football teams move in patterns known as Lévy walks. This behavior, observed in individual players and the team's overall movement, mirrors natural foraging strategies seen in animals like albatrosses.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1076312
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Research has found that many terrorist groups with differing ideological motivations share common ground in targeting LGBTQ+ communities. Groups with contrasting ideologies — from Islamic extremist organisations to far-right terrorist groups — overlap in their anti-queer sentiment.
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2025/03/06/extremists-align-in-targeting-lgbtq-communities
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Age and Cognitive Skills: Use it or Lose It
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads1560
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University of Michigan study finds air drying clothes could save U.S. households over $2,100 and cut CO2 emissions by more than 3 tons per household over a dryer's lifetime. Researchers say small behavioral changes, like off-peak drying, can also reduce emissions by 8%.
https://news.umich.edu/clothes-dryers-and-the-bottom-line-switching-to-air-drying-can-save-hundreds/
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Study found that individuals with pronounced social anxiety tend to be less motivated to engage in prosocial behaviors when these require effort.
https://www.psypost.org/social-anxiety-can-diminish-prosocial-motivation-study-finds/
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Deadly Aspergillus fungal strains, with mortality rates ranging between 30% to 90%, 5 times more likely to acquire resistance to new drugs due to continued use of an agricultural fungicide called ipflufenoquin, which has the same biological target and kills fungi in the same way as antifungal drugs.
https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/strains-of-aspergillus-fumigatus-five-times-more-likely-to-acquire-resistance-to-antifungals-396980
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Whale urine ‘funnel’ moves 4,000 tons of nitrogen and over 45,000 tons of biomass annually, keeping ocean alive | The incessant industrial whaling of the 19th and 20th centuries had a drastic effect on the whales’ natural transport system of nutrients.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56123-2
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An oral norovirus vaccine tablet was safe and elicited mucosal immunity in older adults in a phase 1b clinical trial
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.ads0556
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Researchers used CRISPR gene editing to cut a single gene from head and neck cancer cells, eliminating 50% of tumors in mice. The study highlights CRISPR’s potential for cancer treatment, suggesting CRISPR could be effective against multiple cancer types, including myeloma and liver cancer.
https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/crispr-therapy-eliminates-50-of-head-and-neck-tumors-397092
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A study suggests that many girls believe experiencing low mood and anxiety is "normal" for their age group, especially within their generation. Contributing factors include gendered expectations, educational pressures, relationships and social media
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/study-reveals-teenage-girls-own-views/
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Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interactions 100,000 years ago included cultural exchange. Findings of relations between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens suggest that the ancient human species coexisted, and even shared aspects of daily life, technology and burial customs.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/neanderthal-modern-human-cave-burial/
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Taurine, a common amino acid, stimulates and increases plasma GLP-1 levels —a gut hormone controlling blood sugar and appetite—in mice, suggesting potential therapeutic benefits for diabetes and diet-related disease prevention.
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1873-3468.70014
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Giving blood frequently may make your blood cells healthier
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471573-giving-blood-frequently-may-make-your-blood-cells-healthier/
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Research found in comparison to those who had not been abused in childhood, adults who had experienced both childhood physical and sexual abuse had approximately double the odds of physical and mental health conditions, including angina, arthritis, asthma, heart attack, depression
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10775595251322084
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Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during sex so she doesn’t eat him, study shows. Tetrodotoxin immobilises the female – who is about two to five times bigger than the male – so mating can occur.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/11/blue-lined-octopus-sex-venom-tetrodotoxin
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Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-europe-deaths-heat-cold-7e02727d6e946f466246b66f9def71da
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Facebook is constantly doing marketing experiments on their users — and even Facebook creators don’t fully know how it works due to their use of AI. Users are not aware they are being experimented on. Algorithms are so precise, they can target people down to an individual level.
https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/news/insights/facebook-constantly-experimenting-consumers-and-even-its-creators-dont-fully-know-how
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Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation. Between 4% and 14% of the world’s staple crops of wheat, rice and maize is being lost due to the pervasive particles. It could get even worse, as more micro plastics pour into the environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/10/microplastics-hinder-plant-photosynthesis-study-finds-threatening-millions-with-starvation
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With the rise of video conferencing during the COVID-19 pandemic, many students became hyper-aware of their appearance on screen, leading to a phenomenon known as Zoom dysmorphia, a mental health condition characterized by obsessive concerns about physical appearance.
https://www.psypost.org/video-calls-and-self-perception-new-research-examines-zoom-dysmorphia-in-students/
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Italian Scientists Have Turned Light Into a Supersolid
https://www.newsweek.com/supersolid-light-physics-quantum-mechanics-2041338
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The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale.
https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/megalodon-may-have-been-more-like-a-lemon-shark-than-a-great-white-396990
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New research showed that people with type 1 diabetes were twice as likely as the general population to attempt suicide, leading to hospitalization or death, and 1.8 times as likely as people with cancer
https://www.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=26877
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Firefighters could be exposed to chemicals that put them at higher brain cancer risk. Haloalkanes, in flame retardants and fire extinguishers, have been linked to gliomas. Firefighters, and people in jobs such as car painting and machine maintenance, are at higher risk of haloalkane gene mutations.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/firefighters-could-be-exposed-to-chemicals-that-put-them-at-a-higher-brain-cancer-risk
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